Software Update: BitComet 1.16

Tuesday version 1.16 of BitComet was released. This BitTorrent client has support for dht, downloading torrents without a tracker and being able to preview a part of a movie that is not yet fully downloaded. It is also possible to create and seed a torrent yourself. In addition, IP addresses can be banned and you can chat with other BitComet users. Below is what has changed in this release:

GUI Improved:

• Add “Task Tags” page to Options dialog, default download folder for each tag can be set here.
• Improve “Directories” page in Options dialog, task tags for each candidate download directory can be set here.
• Set task tag and default download folder for new task automatically according to file extension name.
• Improve drop list of save folder in task properties dialog, display candidate download directories and corresponding tags
• Add “Set as Default Directory” button in BT task properties dialog
• Add “Super Seeding” option in advanced page of BT task properties dialog
• Add BT task log list
• Add preview/open button in BT task file list
• Display user group info in peer list or BT task in blue

Core Improve:

• Support Super Seeding for BT task (for initial seeding server only)
• Improve preview download mode for BT task
• Improve connection algorithm or Long-Time seed

Core Bug Fix:

• Save task list failed in Vista/Win7 64bit
• Data in first/last piece of file may not be saved properly when select part of files in BT task to download
• Failed to remove torrent file with read-only attribute in program data folder when remove BT task